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Protest Art

This art & technology project was completed in collaboration with high school art teacher Sara Arno for her two dimensional art class. We first collaborated on this project in 2013 with acrylic paintings, and a second time in 2014 with masks. For more information: http://bit.ly/arnokatz

Protest Art

2.
Unit Questions
• How can art be used as social, political activism?
• What are the issues of social and political activism?
• How does multiage, multicultural, and multinational
view and affect activism?

3.
Unit Questions
• What are the goals of activism? How do young
people become active?
• How can student artists use a body of work to aid
themselves and others to understand and explore
art as a form of social activism?

4.
Key Concepts
• Art can be used as social and political activism
• Awareness of the multinational issues
• Social activism requires action
• Youth can be activists

14.
ACTIVITY
Choose one of the previous artist’s image
Describe (to a blind person who once could see)
Analyze (remember this is about the use of design
principles and elements, medium, techniques)
Interpret (what is the “Big Idea”? what are your clues?
Judge (does it work as art, as activism, NOT do you
like it, although important to you)

34.
Movies as a form of assessment
• The student ﬁnds value in the movie making
process outside of the studio project
• “iMovie was a tangible record of the art process so I
can reevaluate my growth and learning.” - Christina

44.
Reﬂection
• How do you interpret what Barrett is saying?
• What is the result of this viewpoint in regards to your work?
• How (un)successful is your feeling in light of this
viewpoint?
• Where or what might you alter?